Boating

Simone enjoys the breeze boating on Foster Reservoir with the Abels.

Happy Friday the 13th!

I posted a few new photos this morning...these are photos we submitted to Reuters, who along with Sony, is sponsoring a display of "Everyday Smiles" in Times Square in NYC. We submitted photos a few days ago, and they ended up displaying 9 of our 10 photos yesterday afternoon. The photos were taken by a webcam from an office building across the street from the Reuters sign. We thought it was kind of a fun thing....If you'd like to do the same, go to the Reuters/Sony site and upload your photo. I don't think they are too picky, so long as the person is smiling. The only photo they didn't choose was the one we sent in of just Simone smiling. I guess canine grins don't count. Oh well. At least we got her in on the one where she's giving Gary a kiss!

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It's finally sunny here in Corvallis, and Simone and I are soaking up the sunshine today. Her gums have healed nicely from the surgery and she has gotten spoiled lately with long evening walks down to 35th and back...so much so that when I am too tired and would rather take it easy at home, she lets me know by 8:30pm that it's simply not acceptable that she hasn't had her big walk of the day. So, off we go, and she runs through the tall grass over by Sunset Park and we bat our way through the evening mosquitoes until she's had her fill. I've been cheating her of the full 2 miles lately, but hope to get back to that this next week. Hopefully with Gary finally done with "Fawlty Towers" this weekend, his being home again in the evenings will help propel us back on track.

Other than that, things here are good. I finished up my first term at my clinical site in Eugene, and have "comped" on 13 different exams...mostly extremities, but now I can also play bartender with barium and perform the small bowel follow through exam. It's all good fun. For the first time in my life, I actually look forward to going to work every day and am not filled with that awful sense of dread or obligation. I think I may have finally found my niche!

With the term over, I now have a week off and plan to spend my time in the garden, catching up on my stack of untouched library books, taking Simone on long walks, and actually cooking meals again. Hopefully I can still remember how!

Happy Friday the 13th everyone...Don't let paraskavedekatriaphobia get you down!